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[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

For real, and even among anarchists on the ground I've only met like 3 who used the word tankie. All three were weird though. One guy said the library next to where we hand out food is a "tankie library" because there were Marx and Lenin books in the socialism section. Another guy used the term tankie but I don't think he knew what it meant, since he'd refer to the cops as tankies. The other person would say tankie as shorthand for militant atheists.

But in all those three cases those people still hand out food and help people so they're light-years ahead of the bozos on r*ddit

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Another guy used the term tankie but I don't think he knew what it meant, since he'd refer to the cops as tankies

Using "tankie" to mean "someone who has tanks" kinda rules. I like this guy's energy.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

i saw some lib calling sherman a tankie and someone else saying julius caesar was a tankie once. tankie is when youre a famous historical person and use violence to do things

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I'm going to have to remember this very true fact about Julius Caesar because that will for sure rustle some crank's jimmies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

julius caesar was a tankie

More like chariotee

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

"cops are tankies" is an incredible take that acts as a potent distillation of radlib vibes based analysis

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Another guy used the term tankie but I don’t think he knew what it meant, since he’d refer to the cops as tankies

I mean, working backwards through a gamer lens I could see someone calling the Cops "tankie", as in, they can tank a lot of damage, lol.